Book Presentation  |  Thu, April 29, 2021, 13–14 h  | Online Lecture via ZOOM
Zi Wang: The Discursive Construction …
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Book Presentation  |  Thu, April 29, 2021, 13–14 h  | Online Lecture via ZOOM
Zi Wang: The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society: An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs. DeGruyter, 2020.

Registration required:
https://www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/index.html

Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese group dynamics. How one comports depends on one’s status and position vis-à-vis others. Yet, despite its prevalence, extant literature on contemporary Japanese society offers little explanations as to how and where individuals growing up in Japan acquire such social knowledge on a collective scale, nor the nature and characteristics of this hierarchy.
This book provides an ethnographic account on the social construction of hierarchy to address the afore-mentioned questions. Set in the critical adolescent years of growing up, it examines how jouge kankei as an enduring feature of Japanese social life is created and reproduced among secondary school students. It shows the ways in which students in school club activities use language and a range of discursive practices to enact, legitimise, and transmit jouge kankei. Although rigid and conservative in appearance, findings suggest that jouge kankei may also have an egalitarian role to play in Japanese society. In addition, this book presentation also covers topics such as doing research in Japanese school contexts, as well as implications of findings for secondary school education in Japan.

Zi Wang is a postdoctoral fellow and co-investigator of the research project Language, migration and happiness in Germany, based at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He received his PhD in sociology and Asian Studies in 2018 and has since held visiting fellowships/lectureships in France (Sciences Po Paris and Sciences Po Lille), Italy (Ca’ Foscari Venice), Japan (Waseda University, Tokyo) and Turkey (Altinbas University, Istanbul). His most recent research and publication activities span multiple fields such as discourse, education, migration and well-being studies. These include the monographs The Role of Language in the Well-Being of Migrants (Routledge, forthcoming) and The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japan (De Gruyter, 2020). Zi Wang’s works are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Research Grant, 2018–2021) and the European Commission (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, 2021–2023). weniger

The Use of Facial and Health Data in AI: The Case of the Health Code System in China and Implications for Implementations …
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The Use of Facial and Health Data in AI: The Case of the Health Code System in China and Implications for Implementations of the GDPR  |  Wed, April 21, 2021, 10–12 h  | Online lecture
Janet Hui Xue is Research Associate at the University of Oxford. In 10/2020 she joined the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg for one year.

The lecture will be held as a web-seminar. Please register:
https://uni-due.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdeyspjgtG9WK4EtOrKgwQlwyhjbLlm-s

Link to the program of the IN-EAST Research Forum during summer term 2021:
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/events/in-east_research_forum weniger

Seminar „Rating a People“: Schlüsseldokumente, Schlüsselinstitutionen und Schlüsseltheorien Chinas Sozialkreditsystems …
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Seminar „Rating a People“: Schlüsseldokumente, Schlüsselinstitutionen und Schlüsseltheorien Chinas Sozialkreditsystems (Lia Musitz)
Einige Teilnehmer des Seminars, das im Wintersemester 2020/21 stattfand, haben Beiträge zu ihren Recherchen über Chinas Sozialkreditsystem verfasst. Sie sind als Blog auf der IN-EAST-Webseite Forschendes Lernen veröffentlicht:
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/study_programs/forschendes_lernen.php weniger

Artikel von Felix Lee mit Statements von Markus Taube in China.Table #53, 1.4.2021
Die EU hatte im März Sanktionen gegen …
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Artikel von Felix Lee mit Statements von Markus Taube in China.Table #53, 1.4.2021
Die EU hatte im März Sanktionen gegen China wegen der Repression gegen die Uiguren in Xinjiang erlassen, und China hatte mit noch schärferen Maßnahmen gekontert. Nach Markus Taube sei das für die Beziehungen ein Tiefpunkt, aber keine Zäsur, wenn auch wachsendes Misstrauen auf europäischer Seite und Existenzangst für chinesische Unternehmen, die auf US-Technologie angewiesen sind, bleiben würden.

Link zu China.Table:
https://table.media/china/
(Volltext kostenpfliichtig) weniger

Auftakt für Duisburger China-Studie zur Neuen Seidenstraße, Artikel in der Rundschau Duisburg, 26. März 2021
Vorgestellt …
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Auftakt für Duisburger China-Studie zur Neuen Seidenstraße, Artikel in der Rundschau Duisburg, 26. März 2021
Vorgestellt wurde das Projekt am 9. März, Autoren der Studie sind vonseiten des IN-EAST Markus Taube, Nele Noesselt und Thomas Heberer. Impulsgeber für die Studie ist Johannes Pflug, China-Beauftragter der Stadt Duisburg und Mitglied im Kuratorium des IN-EAST. Finanziert wird sie u.a. vom NRW-Wirtschaftsministerium.

Link zum Artikel: https://www.rundschau-duisburg.de/2021/03/26/duisburger-china-studie-ueber-die-neue-seidenstrasse/ weniger

Empirical Globalization Research – Professions, Medical Practices, and Travelling Knowledge  |  March 25–26, 2021, …
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Empirical Globalization Research – Professions, Medical Practices, and Travelling Knowledge  |  March 25–26, 2021, 12.45 h
The online conference is hosted by the DFG Project Glocalization of Medical Professional Knowledge and Practice.

For more information about registration and the conference program, please refer to the project website:
https://www.uni-due.de/soziologie/dfgtravellingknowledge.php

The research projects of Tao Liu (and of other scholars of the IN-EAST) can be found here:
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/research/individual_research_activities.php weniger

Transnational Asian Studies – Multi-Level Dynamics of Identity Formation and Institution Building  |  March 10–12, …
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Transnational Asian Studies – Multi-Level Dynamics of Identity Formation and Institution Building  |  March 10–12, 2021 – Online Conference

AREA Ruhr is host to the biennial DGA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde e.V.) conference.
The online conference takes place on March 10–12, 2021.
Regular Registration: Jan 16 – March 3, 2021.

For more information see:
http://dga-conference.de weniger

Identität im Kontext von Migration: Methoden, Befunde und Analysen  |  18. und 19. März 2021, 9 Uhr  |  Online-Konferenz. …
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Identität im Kontext von Migration: Methoden, Befunde und Analysen  |  18. und 19. März 2021, 9 Uhr  |  Online-Konferenz. Anmeldung erforderlich
Nach der Begrüßung beginnt die Tagung mit einer Keynote von Florian Coulmas: The ABC of Identity

Link zur Tagungs-Webseite des InZentIM
(Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung):
https://www.uni-due.de/inzentim/nachwuchs2021 weniger

Provider Payment Reform for Chinese Hospitals: Policy Transfer and Internal Diffusion of International Models  |  Paper …
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Provider Payment Reform for Chinese Hospitals: Policy Transfer and Internal Diffusion of International Models  |  Paper by Armin Müller and Tobias ten Brink
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Diana Schüler im Blog „Fostering Innovation“ über Südkoreas Spitzenplatz bei Innovationen – wo bleibt Deutschland?

3.11 From one Disaster to another: Japan’s Earthquake. In: storicamente 17/2021, 5 March 2021 (Web-based publication of …
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3.11 From one Disaster to another: Japan’s Earthquake. In: storicamente 17/2021, 5 March 2021 (Web-based publication of University of Bologna)
https://storicamente.org/coulmas-japan-earthquake-tsunami

Florian Coulmas who lived in Tokyo at the time of the great earthquake in North-East Japan on March 11 ten years ago wrote a report to remember this disaster. The tsunami killed close to 20,000 people and lead to the meltdowns in the nuclear power plant of Fukushima.
Florian Coulmas looks back to the earthquake and analyses its impact until today.

The IN-EAST presented a photo exhibition of the Japan Professional Photographers Society three years after the disaster showing the destruction but also the people and their life.
https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/about_in-east/exhibitions/2014_03_ikiru.php weniger

Beitrag von Ruth Kirchner zu Chinas Impfstofflieferungen mit Statement von Markus Taube, tagesschau.de, 10.3.2021

BMBF-funded Project: Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia – especially Vietnamese IT specialists
Japan …
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BMBF-funded Project: Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia – especially Vietnamese IT specialists
Japan is becoming a country of immigration. Because the society is aging and the economy is desperately seeking workers, the government is shifting its policy. The recruitment and labour integration of Vietnamese IT specialists is being studied by IN-EAST scholar Dr. Aimi Muranaka. She is part of a BMBF-funded junior research group investigating the role of skills in migration processes in Asia. The entire project (funding period: 4 years) is led by Ruth Achenbach and Joohyun Justine Park (Goethe University Frankfurt), other involved scholars are Helena Hof (MPI Göttingen) and Megha Wadhwa (Free University Berlin).

Japan has two percent of foreign residents. That’s low compared to the European countries, but their numbers have never been higher. Vietnamese are the third largest group after migrants from China and South Korea. New visa rules are intended to bring more foreign workforce into the country in the future. These workers will be given better treatment in terms of visa duration and family reunification. But they will also have to learn Japanese and pass exams on their expertise.

Aimi Muranaka: “Japan is very interested in Vietnam: firstly as a sales market for its products, and secondly because of its cheap and good workers. In Vietnam, on the other hand, the tech sector is growing tremendously. A bilateral trade agreement between the two countries also makes easier for Vietnamese to work in Japan This applies to industries such as nursing and, as well as those where higher education is required, such as IT.”

In her sub-project, which is funded with more than 500,000 Euros, she is investigating how Vietnamese IT employees are recruited and integrated into the Japanese labor market. There is no government employment agency in Japan, but is done by private companies. She would like to take a closer look at their role and that of language schools. “For example, there are placement companies that fund training programs for IT skills and Japanese at Vietnamese universities. Similar to other foreign skilled labour in Japan, Vietnamese professionals do not have easier time integrating in the labour market due to different factors. This includes the strong demand from Japanese employers to language proficiency and knowledge of Japanese business culture. Again, there are service providers who specialize in teaching this.”

(Text based on press release of UDE, March 4, 2021) weniger

Artikel über die Aussichten für das deutsche Exportgeschäft mit Statements (zu China) von Markus Taube, Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung, …
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Artikel über die Aussichten für das deutsche Exportgeschäft mit Statements (zu China) von Markus Taube, Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung, 9.3.2021
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Podiumsdiskussion vom Konfuzius-Institut Metropole Ruhr mit Thomas Heberer, Danhong Zhang und Nicola Spakowski